Mumbai – Within the last 24 hours, the Central Government banned 18 OTT apps, 19 websites and 10 applications across India. After the order, all these websites and applications including OTT platforms will not be able to provide their services in India. But the question arises that why did the government have to ban them? After all, what kind of content was being served on these platforms that orders had to be passed to forcefully shut them down. Responding to this, Information Technology Minister of the Government of India, Anurag Thakur said that the action to ban all these has been taken under the provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2000. Minister Anurag Thakur has stressed the responsibility of these platforms for not circulating obscene and indecent content under the guise of ‘creative expression’. He told that they had been warned in the past too but no steps were taken by them and obscene content was continuously being broadcasted on them. Therefore, there was no other option left except closing them.
Appreciating this step taken by the Central Government, Mansi Bhatt, channel producer of Mask TV OTT platform, said that we have been operating our OTT platform as per the guidelines of the Central Government and this is the reason that in our journey so far. Our platform is becoming very popular among the people. Those who spread obscenity in the society must be punished. We have been serving our content to people of all ages on our Mask TV OTT, that is why today our platform is so firmly established in the market. We have been releasing all types of content like crime thriller, rom com, suspense thriller, comedy, documentary, social drama, patriotic, mythological on our OTT in many languages, out of which many series/films have been viewed millions of times. Getting immense popularity in such a short time only proves the quality of our content. We will continue to create content as per the demands of the audience keeping commercialism in mind. Recently, a web film named Hindutva was released on our Mask TV OTT platform in which Sita ji of the famous television serial Ramayana, Deepika Chikhalia Topiwala, Bhajan Samrat Anup Jalota, Siya Ke Ram fame Ashish Sharma, Govind Namdev etc. Actors were part of this webfilm
